My Life in Quotes- #3
"The eye with which I see God is the same with which God sees me."- Meister Eckhart, quoted in D.T. Suzuki, Zen Buddhism
There I was majoring in Judaic Studies and Philosophy, and expanding my horizons beyond my insulated Jewish upbringing in Brooklyn. It looks like I found 4 meaningful quotes from this book as I was introduced to zen Buddhism.
Meister Eckhart, it turns out, was a medieval Christian thinker.
As we are each formed in the image of God, Eckhart seems to be saying that we form God in our own image. We each have a unique perspective on the nature of the divine, and that perspective changes as we change.
The nature of God, he implies, is infinite.
About this series-
I love words. I love when a word exactly captures the moment, the feeling. How it precisely describes something that you experienced but didn’t know exactly how to express. It’s like a warm bath or a deeply satisfying meal.
And beyond that- a collection of words. A deeply insightful phrase, thought-provoking and uplifting. A quote to remember.
I started collecting quotes when I was 16 years old. (1972) I’m 68 now, as I write these words, (2024), and there are 472 quotes in my collection. At this precise moment.
That’s not really that many over the course of 52 years. I guess I am fairly discriminating. Sometimes years can go by and the collection lays dormant. In other years there is a great harvest of quotes.
These are not necessarily famous quotes, things you’ll often hear referenced. For the most part, they simply represent words that I read that made me stop for a moment to meditate and bask in their impact. And quotes I enjoy reading and re-reading and quoting myself!
These quotes represent the evolution of my thinking over the course of 52 years. I look forward to pondering what it is that made me find each one meaningful enough to save.
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